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Re: How to get ar9170 chipset usb adapter working

I have the D-Link DWA-160A2 (version A i think with a minor revision?).

Is this the same chipset as the DWA-160A or does it have the DWA-160B chipset?

The DWA-160A1 and DWA-160A2 both are same chipset (ar9170). The DWA-160B has a ralink chipset.

Needless to say my USB adapter isnt working, just my virtual ethernet connection to my onboard wireless card. The light on the USB is always off when mounted by VWware. Backtrack can see my device as an EHCI Host Controller - 11n adapter. Here are the details from backtrack.

Your lsmod output shows that you don't have any of the wireless modules loaded. To get all the modules loaded try running

Code:

modprobe -a ath ar9170usb mac80211 cfg80211 rfkill_backport led_class

If its still not working after that, it may be a VMware issue(I don't know shit about VMware).

Re: How to get ar9170 chipset usb adapter working

Re: How to get ar9170 chipset usb adapter working

Hey thanks so much worked on the first try, but there is something wrong when I have them both on and I'm using my internal wireless network card the light keeps going on and off like it keeps turning on and off the page still loads but a tiny bit slower. What can I do to not make them conflict with eatch other.

Re: How to get ar9170 chipset usb adapter working

Thanks for the tutorial, Dustyboner.
But I have something to ask.
I just bought TL WN821N usb wifi adapter, and has done like what u said. And it looks like it has been detected as wlan1 ( I use laptop, so wlan0 is for internal wifi ).
What I want to ask is about airmon-ng. I type this :
#airmon-ng
#airmon-ng start wlan1
#airodump-ng
after that it began to monitor,, but after a while (less than 1 minute) , my system seems to freeze, with caps lock light on and off.
Is that a problem with the wifi adapter?

Re: How to get ar9170 chipset usb adapter working

i get this when i try airodump with wnda3100

root@bt:~# airodump-ng ath0

ARP linktype is set to 1 (Ethernet) - expected ARPHRD_IEEE80211,
ARPHRD_IEEE80211_FULL or ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM instead. Make
sure RFMON is enabled: run 'airmon-ng start ath0 <#>'
Sysfs injection support was not found either.